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19th-Century Posters
Lennon wanted the track to have a “carnival atmosphere”, and told producer George Martin that he wanted “to smell the sawdust on the floor”.
In the middle eight bars, multiple recordings of fairground organs and calliope music were spliced together to attempt to satisfy this request.
Harry Kellar, known as the Dean of American Magicians, enjoyed both public recognition and financial success. His was the largest and most elaborate stage illusion show touring during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
He is best known for his spectacular version of the Levitation, in which a girl mysteriously rises up from a couch, floats across the stage to the audience, and then disappears into thin air. Upon his retirement in 1908, Kellar chose to spend his remaining years in Los Angeles – the City of Angels.
As is the case with most magicians, there is little of Kellar’s early life that can be confirmed. His real name was Heinrich Keller and he was born to German immigrants in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was sometimes called Henry, but later changed it to Harry. As a child, he loved to play dangerous games and was known to play chicken with passing trains. Kellar apprenticed under a druggist and frequently experimented with various chemical mixtures. On one occasion, Kellar reportedly blew a hole in the floor of his employer’s drugstore. Rather than confront the wrath of his parents, Kellar stowed away on a train and became a vagabond. He was only ten years old at the time. Kellar was befriended by a British-born minister of religion from upstate New York. He offered to adopt Kellar and pay for his education if he would study to also become a minister. One evening Kellar saw the performance of a traveling magician, “The Fakir of Ava”, the stage name of Isiaiah Harris Hughes, and, after the show, he “immediately got the urge to go on the stage”. He later told Houdini that, “I became very restless, bought books on magic and finally left my friend and benefactor”. While working on a farm in Buffalo, New York, Kellar answered an ad in the newspaper that was placed by Hughes, who was looking for an assistant. Kellar was hired and, at the age of sixteen, gave his first solo performance in Dunkirk, Michigan; it was a disaster and Kellar went back to work with Hughes. Two years later, Keller tried again with better results, but, as he was in poor financial condition, his early career often consisted of borrowing equipment for the show and avoiding creditors.
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About
Kellar was named after the multi-talented Thomas MacKellar (1812–1899), associate owner of one of the nineteenth century’s leading American type foundries: MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan (MS&J). A published author and poet, MacKellar rose to manage the composing room floor and later became the founding editor of The Typographic Advertiser, MS&J’s house organ. He notably introduced the practice of setting humorous riffs as sample texts in specimen books.
Kellar began as a synthesis of various Condensed Titles cuts found in MS&J’s Printer’s Handy Book of Specimens (1871). Incorporating the high contrast and narrow proportions typical of Didot-like fashion typefaces, Kellar stands as a quirky outsider, with its organic lowercases, expressive figures, and emphasized oval structure.
The namesake Harry Kellar—a nineteenth-century American magician and predecessor of Harry Houdini—was another key source of inspiration for this typeface, translating the exuberance of Victorian-era letterpress posters into contemporary editorial typography. As a nod to this heritage, Kellar embeds a specific alternate form of “G” drawn from the antique circus poster that inspired the Beatles’ Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!.
Drawing on certain Scotch Roman characteristics and fully equipped with almost-too-long serifs and various stylistic alternates, Kellar is cut out for distinctive, eccentric headlines.
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